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UNITED' STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAIIIES BAILLIE HAhIII/ION, OF VOROESTER, MSSAOIIUSIITTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE HAMILTON VOOALEON ORGAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF

SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,624, dated October l2, 1886.

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T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JmtEs BAILLIE HAMIL- TON, a subject of the Queenof Great Britain, but residing at present in the city and county of Worcester, ofthe Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Im provement` in Keyed Musical Instruments termed IteedOrgans5 and I do herebyY declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure lis a top view, Fig. 2 a front elevation, Fig. 3 an end view, and Fig. 4 a transverse section, of certain parts of a reed-organ embodying my invention. Fig. 5 is a hori zontal section of the phalanX-box.77 Fig. G is a horizontal section taken on line l l of Fig. 4-that is, through the rear set of reedchambers-\.vhilc Fig. T is a horizontal section on line 2 2 of Fig. 41E-that is, through the front set of reed-chambers.

My present invention relates to that shown and described in an application recently made by me t'or a patent, such application having been filed in the Patent Office on April l, 1886, and having the serial number 197,406. The i nvention embraced in such application contained what was described as a 'phalanx7 or phalangal arrangement ot' pipes or pipereceiving holes, with passages leading from them to a se ries or range ol' reed-chambers. In other words, the invention consisted in the combination of a range of reed-chambers open at their front ends, and there provided with a closing valve or cover, with a series ot" passages or channels leading Vfrom such reed chambers to several ranges or a phalanx of pipe-receiving holes, formed in a board over or covering such chan.- nels, and varying in their sizes or diameters. This invention necessarily required the organ pipes used in the holes to be of full organ lengths, or approximately so, thereby .renden ing the instrument cumbersome in comparison to what it is under my present improvement, by which the pipes used are very short, comparatively speaking.

IVith my present invention I am enabled to obtain the useful results incidentto the other with greater effectiveness, and also with. a niaterial diminution in the size ofthe instrument.

The phalangal arrangement shown in my aforesaid application for a patent had its reeds or reed-chambers in one single range or bank, to which it was limited, to effect which the scale of reeds selected was the narrowest usually practically admissible, being that known by organ-lniilders as the halfi neh scale.77 Vith my present invention I retain the phalanx or phalangal arrangement of the pipes for all the ranges ot' them except the front one, and in- 6o stead of pipes of great lengths to such .ranges I employ very short pipes, and use reeds broader than those of the said front range. Furthermore, the front range of rced.-chanibers I have in a bank disposed below and in front ot' the reed-chambers of the phalanX, and I have the reed-chambers of each set open at their front ends, and each there provided with a closing flap or valve, and the Afront range of pipes I malte removable in a body from the 7o front' of the upper set of .reedchambers, or have them so hinged to the part containing the lower set of such chambers as to be capable of being turned. down, to enable a person to readily gain access to any one of the upper set, for the purpose ol' removing a reed therefrom or of introducing one into it, as occasion may require. t

The drawings show the phalangal arrangement of four ranges of pipes, those ot" the So first range being marked A., those ol' the next one B, those of the third one C, and those of the fourth one D, the pipes of each range varying inheight and horizontal cross-section, or being smaller than those of the range direetly next and in rear. These pipes open into passages E, leading to the rear bank ot' reed-elmmbers, F, each ol' which is not only broader than a reed-chamber, tl, ot' the front bank, but is provided with a corrcspondingly 9o or much broader reed, I), by the use of which I am enabled to employ therewith a very short pipe relatively to what I could were all the reed-chambcrs disposed in one range only. The front reed-chambers, G, ofthe front bank are in advance of and of less depth than those ofthe rear bank, the latter, in the part extend ing above the front bank, being open at their front ends, and there provided with a closing V[lap or valve, I-I, hinged so as to admit of its roo being turned away from the mouths of such Chambers. The front reed-chambers, G, are\ also open at their front ends, and are there provided with a flap or valve, I, to close or /5 uncover them, as circumstances may require. The front or first range, K, of pipes-that is, those of the reed-chambers G-is situated directly over such chambers, each pipe openingv into the chamber immediately below it. fIhese Io pipes are a series of chambers or divisions of a box, L, Whichis separate from and fastened or hinged to the front bank, so as to be capable of being, removed therefrom directly in front of the flap or valve of the mouths of the 15 rear bank of reed-chambers, as occasion may require. Each chamber or division of thev box L has an opening or mouth, c, for the cscape of air from it, such opening being in proportion to the tone required. lzo I do not herein claim the combinationof a Series or range of reed-chamber`s open at their front ends, and there provided with aclosing flap or valve, with a series of passages or channels leading from such reed-chambers to sev- 25 eral ranges oraphalanx of pipes or pipe`receiving holes in a board or covering of such channels or passages, and varying in their sizes or diameters.

I claimha In combination with' a range of reed-cham- 3oA bers open at their front ends, andl there provided with a closing flap or valve or devices, and with a series of passages or channels 1eading from such chambers and a phalanx or several ranges of pipes extending over and 35 JAMES BAILLIE HAMILTON. f

\Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, R. B. TORREY. 

